Beware courier company restricted items lists!

theoretica

Rotti wrote: »

[FONT=&quot]Prohibited Items[/FONT]

• [FONT=&quot]Animal skins / Furs / Any Animal Parts including meat / Ivory and ivory products[/FONT]

DO you think this includes leather shoes and wool jumpers?

ballisticbrian

You can't send "stone or stone derivatives" or "liquids". All the earth was 3.6 billion years ago was a big ball of stone covered in liquid water and everything has derived from this.

Rotti

theoretica wrote: »

DO you think this includes leather shoes and wool jumpers?

I hope they don't take it to those lengths as I have a sheepskin coat to send!!

paddyrg

theoretica wrote: »

DO you think this includes leather shoes and wool jumpers?

Probably will do if you try to claim ;-)

robatwork

And THIS is why I always send my canoes via parcel2go and my kayaks via Interparcel.

RFW

paddyrg wrote: »

Probably will do if you try to claim ;-)

Exactly! Some of them remind me of the sellers who put "seller accepts no responsibility for items lost in the mail".

"The courier accepts no responsibility for any items we deem suitable to keep for ourselves". I'm sure some of those terms wouldn't hold up in court if it was found the courier was negligent.

In my case I may have been willing to take a risk on items being damaged in transit but not willfully tossed anywhere the driver felt like.

mgdavid

Rotti wrote: »

I hadn't realised it was on the list until after the event.......

Says it all really. Just another case of not bothering to check your supplier's Ts & Cs. I think your decision to have a 'change of direction' is probably a good one, it seems ebay is not for you.

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mgdavid wrote: »

Says it all really. Just another case of not bothering to check your supplier's Ts & Cs. I think your decision to have a 'change of direction' is probably a good one, it seems ebay is not for you.

Bit harsh.

Rotti

mgdavid wrote: »

Says it all really. Just another case of not bothering to check your supplier's Ts & Cs. I think your decision to have a 'change of direction' is probably a good one, it seems ebay is not for you.

So do you read the T&Cs of every company you deal with every time you deal with them? I doubt it and I don't expect to have to either. The list has grown recently and now eBay sellers are responsible for the buyers who don't read descriptions, clumsy couriers, late postmen and everything else that goes wrong. eBay takes no responsibility for anything and yet claim to look after their sellers. No they don't.


I have been selling on eBay for 11 years and send fragile items all over the world by all methods, mail and courier. I have over 4000 feedbacks, don't do breakage and pack extremely well, so when something is broken I know it has been very badly treated and don't see why I should shoulder the cost when I have paid them to do a job.


Add the increasing number of fraudulent buyers and you are right ....... eBay will not be for me much longer and many other sellers are on the way out too either by choice or because of underserved defects dished out by a company that has lost the plot. Online selling needs the basic backup of reliable delivery and without it maybe there will be a change of direction back to high street shopping.

Rotti

Interparcel have agreed to refund the cost of the item "as a gesture of goodwill" as they could see from the buyer's photos that it was packed according to UPS guidelines. May have been something to do with getting the CEO involved - who knows?